Quick Notes from the Disoriented

I'm currently sitting in a session on taking out loans. Turns out, you have to pay back the money, even if you don't like law school. Other fun facts from the financial aid office: spending $3 a day for coffee from Starbucks is a poor use of your loan money, and ladies should argue their dry cleaning bill if you're getting charged more than your male counterparts. (Honestly, I'm not making this up.) So apparently, being in law school is fraught with some of the same ridiculousness as the undergraduate experience.

But, the good news about pointless orientation sessions is it gives me time for random blog posts. Most importantly....Lytton and I have had our first CRITTER PANTS SIGHTING!



For those of you unfamiliar with the phenomenon, (and fortunately, if you live west of the Mississippi, I imagine you are,) critter pants are the fashion du jour of the children of the affluent from the eastern half of the US. They are indeed pants with critters on them. Small, embroidered little critters, much like what you would see on a toddler currently going through their animal phase. (See picture of pants with whales.) Yes, straight men do wear these with pride.

We were first warned of this trend by Emily who had seen them on the Georgia campus. We were fascinated. Lytton harbored hopes that critter pants sported a large, fuzzy animal embroidered on the deriere, so he was a little disappointed. Since our first spotting, we've seen them in skirt form, and a pair that replaced the critters with American flags, because patriotism is paying $200 for tacky pants.

And for those of you who have seen "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and haven't seen this, prepared to be unduly stoked about MTV's VMAs



And, because there's no such thing as too much Aldous Snow: